hem there. A front lawn is a rather conspicuous
place for trunks. And what will the neighbors say, too, if we leave
the trunks on the lawn? Why shouldn't we put the trunks in the lower
hall?"

"Well," said Kitty, "I can't afford it, that is why. Really, Mr.
Fenelby, I can't afford to have those three trunks brought into the
house."

"And yet," said Mr. Fenelby, with just the slightest hint of
impatience, "you girls could afford to give the man a dollar _not_
to take them in! That is woman's logic!"

"Oh! a dollar!" said Kitty. "If it was only a matter of a dollar! I
hope you don't think, Mr. Fenelby, that I travel with only ten
dollars' worth of baggage! No, indeed! I simply cannot afford to pay
ten per cent. duty on what is in those trunks, and so I prefer to
let them remain on the lawn. I wrote Laura that I expected to be
treated as one of the family while I was visiting her, and if the
Domestic Tariff is part of the way the family is treated I certainly
expect to live up to it. Now, don't blame Laura, for she was not
only willing to have the trunks come in without paying duty, but
insisted that they should."

Mr. Fenelby looked very grave. He was in a perplexing situation. He
certainly did not wish to appear inhospitable, and yet Laura had had
no right to say that the trunks could enter the house duty free. The
only way such an unusual alteration in the Domestic Tariff could be
made was by act of the Family Congress, and he very well knew that
if once the matter of revising the tariff was taken up it was beyond
the ken of man where it would end. He preferred to stand pat on the
tariff as it had been originally adopted.

"I told her," said Kitty, "that she had no right to throw off the
duty on my trunks, at all, and that I wouldn't have it, and I
didn't."

"Well, Tom," said Mrs. Fenelby, "you know perfectly well that we
can't leave those trunks out on the lawn. It would not only be
absolutely foolish to do that, but cruel to Kitty. A girl simply
can't visit away from home without trunks, and it is absolutely
necessary that Kitty should have her trunks."

"'Necessities, ten per cent.,'" quoted Kitty.

"But, my dear," said Mr. Fenelby, softly, "we really can't break all
our household rules just because Kitty has brought three trunks, can
we? Kitty does not expect us to do that, and I think she looks at it
in a very rational manner. I like the spirit she has evinced."

"Very well, then," said Mrs. Fenelby, "